Travel, Explore, and Capture--Activities
Explore Constantly follows me while I travel, explore, and capture hiking, biking, skiing, sightseeing, photography activities. Below are some recent posts from each of these activity areas. You can also click here to see the map of places I've explored these activities.
Hiking Posts
Inca Trail Hike to Machu Picchu – Peru
The Inca Trail hike is the most popular way to get to Machu Picchu in Peru. The Inca Trail hike is 26.5 miles (42 km) that features a cumulative elevation gain of roughly 7,063 to 8,822 feet (2,153 to 2,689 meters), with the highest point reaching a staggering 13,828...
The Pinellas Trail – St Petersburg’s Iconic Rails to Trails
The Fred Marquis Pinellas Trail is a 75-mile, paved, multi-use trail extending from downtown St. Petersburg, Florida to Tarpon Springs. The Trail, created along a portion of abandoned railroad corridor, provides a unique, protected greenspace for walking, jogging,...
Gedong Songo Temples – Semarang – Indonesia
Gedong Songo is a complex of nine Hindu temples on top of green, forested hill tops located at the foot of Mount Ungaran, above the city of Semarang in Indonesia. The complex is formally known as Candi (temple) Gedong Songo, which in English roughly means Nine Big...
Pink Beach – Lombok – Indonesia
Pink Beach (Pantai Pink) is located on the Tanjung Ringgit penisula on Lombok Island, about a 2 hour drive from the cruise port or Mataram city. Pink Beach in Lombok is one of ten beaches in the world that are pink, and Indonesia is home to two – with the other found...
Blackbutt Nature Reserve – Newcastle Australia
Blackbutt Nature Reserve is a 450 acre (182-hectare) former coal mine near Newcastle, Australia that's been re-imagined into a scenic park with walking trails and native animal species in natural enclosures. Blackbutt was named for the Eucalyptus pilularis tree, one...
Bondi to Bronte Walk – Sydney
The Bondi to Bronte Walk is one of the most iconic coastal walking trails in Sydney. It winds South, past Tamarama Beach and Mackenzies Bay, from Bondi beach to Bronte Beach. The walk has amazing panoramic lookouts over the ocean and is lined from one end to the other...
Snaefellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
The Snaefellsnes Peninsula is a scenic region in West Iceland, boasting a diverse landscape of glaciers, mountains, lava fields, and coastal beauty. It's also home to the Snaefellsjokull National Park, the home of the Sneafellsjokull volcano that towers over the...
Thorsmork Super Jeep Tour – Iceland
One of the highlights of my Iceland trip was the Thorsmork Super Jeep Tour. Þórsmörk (Thorsmork) is a nature reserve in the southern Icelandic highlands. It is one of Iceland's most popular hiking destinations and an amazing location for photography and sightseeing....
Rails Trails – Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historic Park
The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historic Park Canal Trail isn't really a rail trail, it started as a towpath along the canal. But, it's so scenic and in such a great area that it had to make our list! The 184.5 mile long Chesapeake & Ohio Canal is located along...
Incredible Oregon Scenery – Columbia River Gorge
Columbia River Gorge Guide The Columbia River Gorge is an 80-mile (129 km) river canyon cutting through the Cascade Range on the Oregon-Washington border, with basalt walls rising as much as 4,000 feet (1,219 m) above the water. Congress designated 292,500 acres...
Biking Posts
Amazing rails to trails – Trail of the Coeur d’Alenes, ID
The Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes is a 73-mile paved rail-trail across the Idaho panhandle, following the old Union Pacific rail bed from Mullan to Plummer through the Silver Valley, along the Coeur d'Alene River, past Lake Coeur d'Alene, and onto the Coeur d'Alene...
Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway – Black Hills, SD
Spearfish Canyon Scenic Byway is a roughly 20-mile stretch of US Highway 14A through Spearfish Canyon in South Dakota's Black Hills, framed by 1,000-foot limestone walls that the U.S. Forest Service calls older than the Grand Canyon's exposed rock. Budget 45 minutes...
Mountain Biking M Hill – Hanson-Larsen Park, Rapid City SD
Hanson-Larsen Memorial Park is a free, nonprofit trail system on 300 acres of pine-covered hillside above downtown Rapid City, South Dakota, built around the climb to the "M" — a 112.5-foot-tall, 67-foot-wide concrete letter that has watched over the city since 1912...
Sauk Rail Trail, Iowa
The Sauk is a 33 mile concrete and asphalt rails to trails trail that runs South from Lake View to Carroll in West Central Iowa. Lake View is located at the West end of Black Hawk Lake, a 957 acre natural lake that is the southernmost glacial lake in the United...
Awesome hike in Denver metro – William F. Hayden Park on Green Mountain
With more than 2,400 acres of open space, William Frederick Hayden Park on Green Mountain is the second largest park in Lakewood. The park features a challenging network of multi-use trails. The 6,800 ft. summit of Green Mountain Trail offers unique and stunning views...
Easy hike with scenic views – Bluff Regional Park
Bluff Regional Park is an easy hike on an easily accessed trail of just less than four miles in Littleton, CO. The 3.72 mile trail has an easy 200 feet of elevation change, but provides beautiful views of the Colorado Front Range, the Denver metro area, and local...
Amazing trail infrastructure – Denver Greenway Trails
Denver is home to an amazing amount of trails and parks, one outstanding example is the more than 170 miles of Denver Greenway Trails. Composed of numerous trails all over the Denver metro area, including the High Line Trail, South Platte River Trail, and Clear Creek...
Nature ride in the city – Bear Creek Trail
Bear Creek Trail is a 12.5 mile greenway trail from Denver to Morrison CO, just outside of Red Rocks Amphitheater. The trail starts at an intersection with the South Platte River Trail and the Mary Carter Greenway Trail near the Riverpoint at Sheridan Shopping Area in...
Fun Denver Greenway Trail – Clear Creek Trail
The Clear Creek Trail is an eighteen mile paved trail from Denver to Golden, Colorado's first capital city. The trail runs from the South Platte River trail near where it crosses I-76 and winds along Clear Creek through a variety of areas including neighborhoods,...
Scenic Denver Greenway Trail – Cherry Creek Trail
The Cherry Creek Trail is a 40-mile concrete trail that stretches from Confluence Park in downtown Denver along Cherry Creek, through a trail complex near Cherry Creek Reservoir, and ultimately ending in Franktown. Similar to the other Denver Greenway trails, Cherry...
Skiing Posts
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Sightseeing Posts
Subway Cave – Lassen National Forest – California
Subway Cave is a 1,300-foot (400 m) lava tube in Lassen National Forest near Old Station, California, that you can walk straight through on a self-guided trail. The full loop — down through the tube and back on the surface — runs about a third of a mile (0.5 km) and...
Bumpass Hell Trail – Lassen Volcanic NP – California
The Bumpass Hell Trail is a 3-mile (4.8 km) round trip hike to the largest hydrothermal area in Lassen Volcanic National Park, a 16-acre (6.5 ha) basin of boiling mudpots, fumaroles, and acid-blue hot pools. The trail runs between 8,200 and 8,400 feet (2,500 to 2,560...
Fern Canyon – Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park – California
Fern Canyon trail is a 1-mile (1.6 km) lollipop loop through a narrow, fern-walled gorge in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, on the Northern California coast about 50 miles (80 km) north of Eureka. The trail climbs roughly 150 feet (46 m) and takes at least 30...
Cinder Cone Trail – Lassen Volcanic NP – California
The Cinder Cone Trail is a 4-mile (6.4 km) round trip hike to the summit of a 700-foot (213 m) volcanic cinder cone in the northeast corner of Lassen Volcanic National Park. The trail climbs 846 feet (258 m) from the Butte Lake trailhead at 6,061 feet (1,847 m) to the...
Avenue of the Giants – Humboldt Redwoods SP – California
The Avenue of the Giants is a 31-mile portion of historic Highway 101 (now Route 254), which runs along the Eel River from the North entrance near Pepperwood to the South entrance just south of Phillipsville. The Avenue of the Giants is reported to be one of the most...
Rainbow Mountain and Red Valley Hike – Cusco Peru
Rainbow Mountain (Vinicunca) is a stunning geological wonder in the Peruvian Andes that has become famous as a popular Instagram spot. The hike to Rainbow Mountain's viewing area is a spectacular 2 mile (3.2 km) trek to a 16,522 ft (5,036 meter) summit. While the...
Humantay Lake Hike – Cusco Peru
The Humantay Lake hike in Peru is a stunning four mile (6.4 km) round trip hike featuring a vibrant turquoise glacial lake at 13,779 feet (4,200 meters) directly in front of the Humantay and Salkantay mountains in the Vilcabamba mountain range in the Peruvian Andes....
Inca Trail Hike to Machu Picchu – Peru
The Inca Trail hike is the most popular way to get to Machu Picchu in Peru. The Inca Trail hike is 26.5 miles (42 km) that features a cumulative elevation gain of roughly 7,063 to 8,822 feet (2,153 to 2,689 meters), with the highest point reaching a staggering 13,828...
Florida Wildlife Park – Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park
We had a great visit to Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park. It's one part park and two parts zoo, but was really interesting and had a lot more diverse wildlife than we expected. There are a lot of things to do in the park too, including boat tours, free tram...
The Pinellas Trail – St Petersburg’s Iconic Rails to Trails
The Fred Marquis Pinellas Trail is a 75-mile, paved, multi-use trail extending from downtown St. Petersburg, Florida to Tarpon Springs. The Trail, created along a portion of abandoned railroad corridor, provides a unique, protected greenspace for walking, jogging,...